DOI issue:
No. 374 (May 1924)
DOI article:[Notes: two hundred and twenty-one illustrations]
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21399#0299
ISLE OF MAN—LIVERPOOL
The Editor of The Studio has com-
missioned Mr. Ralph Nevill to prepare an
edition de luxe on “ Old English Sporting
Books,” which will appear next September.
It will deal with the highly amusing and
curious illustrated works written about
sporting men like John Mytton, the wild
Shropshire squire, as well as such classics
as “ The Compleat Angler,” and will be
profusely illustrated in colour and black-
and-white. 0 0 0 0 0
TSLE OF MAN.—If, of the two desires
1 which the poet ascribes to the poet,” One
drives him to the world without, and one to
solitude,” very much the same may be
said of the painter. William Hoggatt has,
so far, chosen the artistic solitude of an
island full of natural beauty, where Man is
chiefly confined to trippers, who, though
they rage fearfully on its coasts in summer,
may be avoided, having seldom any deep
connection with art. It is possible that
constant study of this solitude of jewelled
nature—this land of emerald and topaz and
lapis—may have given to the artist’s work
some of the qualities which make it notice-
able among the art products of the North
of England. The work shows a constant
passionate striving for the wonders of light,
colour, texture, and the whole over-
" COSTER GIRL ’’ (UNFIN-
ISHED). BY ISABEL RAGG
powering poetry of landscape. Mr. Hoggatt,
it seems, does not hesitate to employ any
medium or means from a blinker-girt idea
that such means have not been used by
other people, and he is right. His aim is
Nature, and he attacks her directly and
fervently, and is amply justified by power-
ful and scintillating results, which with all
their vivacity have no lack of subtlety. a
The Silverburn above Grenaby was ex-
hibited at Liverpool and specially invited
thence to the Royal Scottish Academy,
1924. J. W. S.
LIVERPOOL.—Freshness, spontaneity,
breadth and promise are the chief
charms of the work of Miss Isabel Ragg,
as well as a suggestion of her widely varied
places of study. 0 0 0 0
Miss Ragg's home being at Caldy, in the
Hundred of Wirral, Cheshire, her first
studies were naturally at the Liverpool
School of Art; but upon this influence
has been superimposed that of the widely
different American viewpoint of the Penn-
sylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Phila-
delphia. America is developing an art
thought and an art influence which the
old world should, and does, watch with
growing attention and delight, and some-
thing of this influence is clearly marked
in the present instance. 000
Orators have been given a piece of
advice, couched in undignified language,
which may be translated into elegance
thus : “ Assume an erect attitude, orate
clearly, subside promptly.” American art
speaks in this way, and Miss Ragg appears
to have received the message. Her work
speaks pithily, and is not laboured.
As she is at present studying in that
incubator of well-known artists, the Royal
Academy School, it is probable that her
very obvious gifts will have ever increasing
notice. 00000
There is a type of artistic mind which
directs its whole energy, unswervingly and
undividedly, towards one goal—perfection
in comprehension and mastery of the
branch it has made its own. Given imagin-
ation and a sense of values, this type of
mind seldom fails, for, if circumstances
force it out of its original channel, it uses
the same energy of concentration in what-
ever it is applied to. It was this character-
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The Editor of The Studio has com-
missioned Mr. Ralph Nevill to prepare an
edition de luxe on “ Old English Sporting
Books,” which will appear next September.
It will deal with the highly amusing and
curious illustrated works written about
sporting men like John Mytton, the wild
Shropshire squire, as well as such classics
as “ The Compleat Angler,” and will be
profusely illustrated in colour and black-
and-white. 0 0 0 0 0
TSLE OF MAN.—If, of the two desires
1 which the poet ascribes to the poet,” One
drives him to the world without, and one to
solitude,” very much the same may be
said of the painter. William Hoggatt has,
so far, chosen the artistic solitude of an
island full of natural beauty, where Man is
chiefly confined to trippers, who, though
they rage fearfully on its coasts in summer,
may be avoided, having seldom any deep
connection with art. It is possible that
constant study of this solitude of jewelled
nature—this land of emerald and topaz and
lapis—may have given to the artist’s work
some of the qualities which make it notice-
able among the art products of the North
of England. The work shows a constant
passionate striving for the wonders of light,
colour, texture, and the whole over-
" COSTER GIRL ’’ (UNFIN-
ISHED). BY ISABEL RAGG
powering poetry of landscape. Mr. Hoggatt,
it seems, does not hesitate to employ any
medium or means from a blinker-girt idea
that such means have not been used by
other people, and he is right. His aim is
Nature, and he attacks her directly and
fervently, and is amply justified by power-
ful and scintillating results, which with all
their vivacity have no lack of subtlety. a
The Silverburn above Grenaby was ex-
hibited at Liverpool and specially invited
thence to the Royal Scottish Academy,
1924. J. W. S.
LIVERPOOL.—Freshness, spontaneity,
breadth and promise are the chief
charms of the work of Miss Isabel Ragg,
as well as a suggestion of her widely varied
places of study. 0 0 0 0
Miss Ragg's home being at Caldy, in the
Hundred of Wirral, Cheshire, her first
studies were naturally at the Liverpool
School of Art; but upon this influence
has been superimposed that of the widely
different American viewpoint of the Penn-
sylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Phila-
delphia. America is developing an art
thought and an art influence which the
old world should, and does, watch with
growing attention and delight, and some-
thing of this influence is clearly marked
in the present instance. 000
Orators have been given a piece of
advice, couched in undignified language,
which may be translated into elegance
thus : “ Assume an erect attitude, orate
clearly, subside promptly.” American art
speaks in this way, and Miss Ragg appears
to have received the message. Her work
speaks pithily, and is not laboured.
As she is at present studying in that
incubator of well-known artists, the Royal
Academy School, it is probable that her
very obvious gifts will have ever increasing
notice. 00000
There is a type of artistic mind which
directs its whole energy, unswervingly and
undividedly, towards one goal—perfection
in comprehension and mastery of the
branch it has made its own. Given imagin-
ation and a sense of values, this type of
mind seldom fails, for, if circumstances
force it out of its original channel, it uses
the same energy of concentration in what-
ever it is applied to. It was this character-
280